Scope and Contents note From the Series: The Administration series is about 9 linear feet and covers the years from the 1860s to the 1980s. Included in the series are numerous groupings of records: Corporate Sponsorship, Correspondence, Facilities, Financial, Legal, Memorandums and Internal Communications, Personnel, Topical Files, and a General grouping that includes miscellaneous information. The Facilities area includes information on the Chicago, Hammond, New York, Skokie, and San Francisco locations of Rand McNally plants,...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: The Photographic series (1860-1985) spans 6.4 linear feet and includes photographs, photographic negatives, 35mm slides, glass lantern slides, and a number of oversize photographs. Along with photographs of various facilities the company occupied during this time, are many which depict personnel engaged in production processes for printing and publishing, in particular cartographic and book publishing. In a related production vein, there are many photographs of book illustrations, authors...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: The Photographic series (1860-1985) spans 6.4 linear feet and includes photographs, photographic negatives, 35mm slides, glass lantern slides, and a number of oversize photographs. Along with photographs of various facilities the company occupied during this time, are many which depict personnel engaged in production processes for printing and publishing, in particular cartographic and book publishing. In a related production vein, there are many photographs of book illustrations, authors...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...